Editor-in-Chief:

Jianyi Zhang
Department of Medicine/Cardiology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA


Associate Editor:
B. Dawn (University of Kansas (Cardiology), Kansas, USA)


Regional Editor (Asia):
X.-Y. YU (Medical Research Center of Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China)


Section Editor (General and Interventional Cardiology):
D. Hou (Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute/Saint Joseph's Hospital Atlanta, Atlanta, USA)



Editorial Advisory Board:

W. Abraham (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
E. Alexanderson (National Institute of Cardiology "Ignacio Chavez", Mexico City, Mexico)
O. Alfieri (IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy)
S.D. Anker (Imperial College, London, UK)
C. Antzelevitch (Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica, USA)
P. Anversa (New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA)
H.T. Aretz (Harvard Medical International, Boston, USA)
P. Backx (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
J.J. Badimon (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA)
R.L. Benza (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
S. Betocchi (Federico II University, Naples, Italy)
A. Bobik (Baker Heart Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
H.G. Bogren (University of California-Davis, Sacramento, USA)
P. Boyden (Columbia University, New York, USA)
H.R. Brunner (Vaudois University Hospital Center, Lausanne, Switzerland)
I. Carrio (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
D. Chambers (King's College London, London, UK)
K. Chatterjee (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
D. Chemla (Paris Sud University, Paris, France)
J. Cohn (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
D.V. Cokkinos (Univeresity of Athens, Athens, Greece)
P.M. Colletti (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
A. Colombo (EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy)
J.R. Crouse (Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, USA)
G. Crystal (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
M.J. Curtis (King’s College London, London, UK)
A. Daugherty (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)
J. Deanfield (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
M. Doyle (Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA)
H. Drexler (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
P.M. Eckman (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
M. Endoh (Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan)
M. Enriquez-Sarano (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA)
X. Fang (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
T.B. Ferguson (Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA)
V.A. Ferrari (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
J. Forrester (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA)
G.A. Francis (St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada)
G.L. Freeman (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA)
M.G. Friedrich (Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
S. Fujii (Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan)
C. Furberg (Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, USA)
G. Gabbiani (University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland)
M.R. Garcia-Palmieri (University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA)
J. Gardin (St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit, USA)
J.F. George (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
J. Ghali (Cardiac Center, Shreveport, USA)
M. Gheorghiade (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
A. Gillinov (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA)
S. Goldstein (Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA)
A. Gotlieb (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
S. Gottlieb (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA)
K.L. Grady (Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA)
W.F. Graier (Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria)
S. Gupta (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
A. Hagege (Hop Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France)
K. Hamano (Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan)
M. Hamdan (University Texas SW. Medical Center, Dallas, USA)
K.L. Hamilton (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
C. Hamm (Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany)
G. Hansson (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
E. Hasser (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
C. Hehrlein (Medical University. Klin III, Freiburg, Germany)
D.D. Heistad (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
G. Heller (University of Connecticut, School of Med., Hartford, USA)
M.Y. Henein (University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK)
J.A. Hill (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA)
T. Hintze (New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA)
M. Hiraoka (Labour Insurance Appeal Committee, Japan)
R.E. Hobbs (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA)
D. Holmes (Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA)
M. Hori (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
A.E. Iskandrian (University Blvd, Birmingham, USA)
H. Ito (Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital, Osaka, Japan)
A. Jaffe (Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA)
D. Jain (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
C. January (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)
M. Jerosch-Herold (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
R. Jonas (Harvard University, Boston, USA)
P.H. Jones (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
T. Kamp (University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA)
K. Kario (Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan)
J.C. Kaski (St. George Hospital, London, UK)
H. Katus (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
Z. Katusic (Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA)
S. Kaul (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA)
M. Kern (St. Louis University, St. Louis, USA)
B. Khandheria (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA)
W. Kim (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA)
M. Kirby (Duke University, Durham, USA)
T. Kita (University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan)
D. Kitzman (Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, USA)
N. Kleiman (Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA)
L. Klein (Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA)
I. Komuro (Chiba University, Chiba, Japan)
S. Kostin (Max Planck Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany)
C.M. Kramer (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
E. Kranias (Cincinnati University, Cincinnati, USA)
W. Kraus (Duke University, Durham, USA)
R. Kukreja (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA)
L.H. Kuller (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)
K. Kunzelman (Central Maine Heart & Vascular Institute, USA)
M. Labinaz (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)
I. Laher (University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
N.H. Lameire (University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium)
R. Lasley (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)
C.J. Lavie (Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation & Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, USA)
K. Lee (Duke University, Durham, USA)
E. Lewandowski (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
M.M. Lewinter (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA)
W. Lewis (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
P. Li (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
J. Li (Penn State University, Hershey, USA)
P. Lijnen (University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
B.R. Lucchesi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
P. Lucchesi (LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA)
A.J. Lusis (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
A. Maggioni (ANMCO Research Center, Florence, Italy)
K. Mahaffey (Duke Clin. Research Institute, Durham, USA)
B. Maisch (University Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
M. Majesky (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
M. Malik (St. George Hospital, London, UK)
A. Malliani (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
G. Mancia (Universitˆ degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
K.G. Mann (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA)
W. Manning (Harvard University, Boston, USA)
A.J. Manolis (Boston University, Boston, USA)
A. Marian (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
A. Marks (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA)
J. Martin (CSIC, Granada, Spain)
M.A. Martinez-Rios (National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico City, Mexico)
G. Matherne (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
M.A. Matlib (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA)
H. Matsubara (Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan)
T. Matsuda (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
H. Matsuda (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
A. Matsumori (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
M. Matsuzaki (Yamaguchi Universaity, Yamaguchi, Japan)
L. Matturri (State University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
S. Mavrogeni (Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece)
B.E. Mcmanus (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
C.A. Mcnamara (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
M.R. Mehra (Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation & Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, USA)
R. Mehta (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
J. Mehta (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA)
G. Meissner (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
P. Merlini (Osped Maggiore Niguarda, Milan, Italy)
L.W. Miller (University Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
V.M. Miller (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA)
R.M. Mills (Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA)
R.H. Mohiaddin (Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK)
F. Morady (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
R. Morishita (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
E. Morkin (Arizona Health Science Center, Tucson, USA)
J.D. Morrow (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA)
M. Moscucci (University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA)
D. Moser (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)
E. Murphy (NIEHS, NIH, Res. Triangle Park, North California, USA)
E. Nagel (German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Y. Nakamura (Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan)
T. Nakata (Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan)
M. Navab (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA)
K.S. Nayak (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
N. Nikitin (University Hull Castle Hill Hospital, Yorks, UK)
R.M. Norris (University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand)
E. Ohman (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
H. Oral (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
M. Ovize (Univ. Lyon 1, Lyon, France)
M.C. Oz (Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, USA)
M. Ozkan (Kosuyolu Heart & Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey)
I. Palacios (Harvard University, Boston, USA)
J. Panza (Washington Hospital Center, Washington, USA)
S.J. Park (Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea)
P. Pauletto (University of Padua, Treviso, Italy)
C.J. Pepine (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
J.K. Perloff (University California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA)
E. Peterson (Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, USA)
P. Ping (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA)
H.M. Piper (University Giessen, Giessen, Germany)
L. Pires (St. Johns Hospital, Detroit, USA)
M. Portman (Childrens Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, USA)
K. Przyklenk (UMASS Medical School, Worcester, USA)
T. Quinn (Scholl of Health & Social Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK)
T.J. Rabelink (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)
B. Radovancevic (Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA)
F. Recchia (New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA)
T. Reffelmann (University Hospital, Medical Klin 1, RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
M. Rich (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)
V. Richard (University of Rouen, Rouen, France)
W.C. Roberts (Baylor University, Dallas, USA)
J.R. Roelandt (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
M. Rossi (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil)
M. Runge (University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
W. Ruzyllo (Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland)
H. Sabbah (Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA)
D.J. Sahn (Oregon Health Science University, Portland, USA)
Y. Saito (Chiba University, Chiba, Japan)
S. Sasayama (Hamamatsu Rosai Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan)
H.R. Schelbert (University California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA)
V.B. Schini-Kerth (University Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France)
J.D. Schipke (University Klinikum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany)
D.J. Schneider (University of Vermont, Colchester, USA)
S. Schroeder (University Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany)
R. Schulz (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
H. Schunkert (Medical University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany)
S.M. Schwartz (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA)
R. Schwartz (Baylor College Medicine, Houston, USA)
R. Scognamiglio (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
P. Segers (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
C. Seiler (University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland)
P.W. Serruys (Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
P. Shah (Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA)
C.M. Shanahan (Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK)
A. Sharma (University of California, San Diego, USA)
N. Sharpe (The National Heart Foundation of NZ, Auckland, New Zealand)
M.J. Shattock (The Rayne Institute, London, UK)
H. Shennib (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
H. Shimokawa (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
V. Sinitsyn (Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia)
H. Sinzinger (ASF Wilhelm Auerswald Atherosclerosis Research Group, Vienna, Austria)
K. Sipido (Katholieke University, Louvain, Belgium)
M.A. Smith (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
C. Sobey (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
R. Solaro (University Illinois, Chicago, USA)
V. Somers (Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA)
M. Sosnowski (Silesian Medical School, Katowice, Poland)
J. Staessen (Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium)
S. Steinberg (Columbia University, New York, USA)
H.C. Strauss (SUNY Buffalo, University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, New York, USA)
A. Stromberg (Linkoping University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden)
S. Taddei (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
R. Taillefer (University Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
Y.L. Tang (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA)
L. Tavazzi (IRCCS, Pavia, Italy)
A. Tedgui (Hop Lariboisiere, Paris, France)
A. Terzic (Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA)
P. Theroux (Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada)
J. Towbin (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
H. Tsutsui (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
A. Vahanian (Bichat Hospital, Paris, France)
G. Valen (Karolinska Institutr, Stockholm, Sweden)
F. van de Werf (University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Louvain, Belgium)
E.E. van der Wall (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
V.W. van Hinsbergh (Cardiovasc. Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
P.M. Vanhoutte (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
J.P. Veinot (Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Canada)
H.O. Ventura (Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation & Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, USA)
E.G. Walsh (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
R.C. Webb (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA)
K. Webster (University of Miami, Miami, USA)
F. Weidinger (Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria)
D. Weill (UCHSC, Denver, USA)
H. Weiss (UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA)
J.L. Weitz (Henderson Research Center, Hamilton, Canada)
N.K. Wenger (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
E. Wever ( St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands)
T. Wight (Hope Heart Institute, Seattle, USA)
J. Wilson (Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA)
A. Yildirir (Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey)
A. Zanchetti (Osped Maggiore Center, Milan, Italy)
C. Zhang (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA)
I.H. Zucker (Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA)